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FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall utilizes purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence services to deliver protection and high performance, including encrypted traffic inspection. FortiGate reduces complexity with automated visibility into applications, users, networks, and security-rated traffic to ease the implementation burden. The importance of getting the firewall configurations right cannot be overstated.

Consider this: By the end of 2024, Gartner has projected that over 40% of enterprises will have explicit strategies in place for SASE adoption compared to just 1% in 2018. As the “poster child” of SASE (Forrester Research’s words not mine), Cato has seen first-hand SASE’s incredible growth not just in adoption by organizations of all sizes, but also in terms of third-party vendor requests to integrate Cato SASE Cloud into their software.

Federal and private funding, new market entrants, and creative problem-solving have made it possible to extend broadband connectivity to more U.S. households than ever. But as regional and rural broadband providers, electric utilities and co-ops, satellite operators, and others push to fully close the digital divide, a remaining challenge looms: ensuring enough IP address space to support this growing subscriber base.

Your web server conveys a variety of information to the client when a visitor opens your website. They can access specific policies you've set and sometimes identify what kind of software you use to run your system. Sometimes, that's okay. Other times, the information exposed in your server header can lead directly to a malicious cyber attack.

Today, businesses are increasingly relying on digital technologies to streamline operations and deliver seamless service. A continuously monitored, robust network infrastructure using NPM tools, like OpManager, is critical to ensure business continuity. OpManager, with its advanced AI and ML features, is capable of offering in-depth insights into visibility, network performance, and proactively notifying you of network faults.

A common theme we hear from organizations utilizing a cloud delivered web proxy, either standalone or part of an SSE or SASE platform, is the frustration caused by website localization issues, a common trade-off when using services hosted in different geographies to the user. This is more acute the larger the customer is and the wider the distribution of employees beyond their home country or smaller organizations located in countries with no large scale data center (DC) infrastructure.

Enterprises in the private sector look to the US federal government for cybersecurity best practices. The US CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) issues orders and directives to patch existing products or avoid use of others. The US NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) publishes important documents providing detailed guidance on various security topics such as its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).

During a recent penetration test on a customer application, I noticed weird interactions between the web front-end and back-end. This would eventually turn out to be a vulnerability called HTTP request smuggling, enabled by the fact that the front-end was configured to downgrade HTTP/2 requests to HTTP/1.1. With the help from my colleague Thomas Stacey, we were able to construct an exploit chain with response queue desynchronization along with traditional HTTP/1.1 request smuggling techniques.

Forescout Vedere Labs has identified a total of 21 new vulnerabilities affecting Sierra Wireless AirLink cellular routers and some of its open source components such as TinyXML and OpenNDS, which are used in a variety of other products.